trying to make sense out of injustice

Through a Glass Darkly

This is a repost, because the author raises some very legitimate points. In a state where openly carrying guns is legal, where is the line drawn? How could a police officer, supposedly trained to recognize and analyze situations, not spot the difference between a 12-year-old playing and a 20-year-old as he claimed?

When it comes to guns and gun laws in the United States of America, things have gotten completely out of hand…case in point:

Responding with his partner to a 911 call about a man pointing a gun at people in a park in Cleveland, Ohio, (Ohio is a traditional open-carry state) Police officer Timothy Loehmann arrived at the scene where he immediately exited his police car and shot 12-year old Tamir Rice.

The open-carry of firearms by those who legally possess the firearm is a legal activity in Ohio with or without a license. Tamir had been playing with an Airsoft replica of a semi-automatic weapon, that, according to the police report, was missing its orange safety cap, which signals that it is fake…but Ohio is an open carry state where the open carrying of firearms is legal.